New York-Sana
Russia today used its veto against a Western draft resolution in the UN Security Council to extend the effects of Resolution 2585, which the council adopted on the ninth of last July regarding the delivery of aid to Syria across the border with Turkey for a year.
During the same session, Western countries obstructed the adoption of a Russian draft resolution to extend the work of the council’s decision for a period of six months, increase early recovery projects and deliver aid to all those in need from inside Syria.
Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh, thanked Russia for its initiative to present a balanced draft resolution, praising its sincere efforts to ensure that the humanitarian needs of the Syrians are effectively met and implemented in a transparent and measurable manner. He also thanked the delegations that supported
The project, believing in the necessity of supporting the implementation of core pillars of Resolution 2585, and improving the humanitarian situation in Syria by strengthening early recovery projects and increasing them in quantity and quality, and delivering aid to all those in need from inside Syria, which will reflect positively on the humanitarian situation.
Sabbagh expressed Syria's regret for the Security Council's failure to adopt the draft resolution submitted by Russia, and its rejection and disapproval of the insistence of some Western countries in the Council on misleading the facts and ignoring the just and objective concerns expressed by the delegations of Syria, Russia and other countries, and the West's continued politicization of humanitarian work and obstruction of any sincere effort to alleviate the suffering The Syrians and his continued use of this as tools of pressure and political blackmail against Syria.
Sabbagh explained that the draft resolution submitted by Russia is a sincere attempt to enable the Council to fulfill the responsibility entrusted to it. The suffering of the Syrians is conditional on full respect for the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria.
Sabbagh pointed out that Syria attaches great importance to following up on the humanitarian issue and is making unremitting efforts to meet the humanitarian needs of its people and alleviate their suffering. For this reason, the Syrian delegation expressed, during all the Security Council sessions on the humanitarian issue, the weaknesses, imbalances and obstacles imposed by some Western countries, including through their deliberate politicization Humanitarian action It has also been keen, since the beginning of the consultations related to extending the effects of Resolution 2585, to adopt a clear and constructive approach, both in terms of revealing the defects and dangers posed by the cross-border work mechanism or in terms of exposing the double standards regarding promoting access from within and the lack of seriousness regarding the implementation of early recovery projects. He stressed that the cause of the crisis Humanity in Syria is the wrong policies of some Western countries that still practice deception and fraud by claiming their keenness to provide humanitarian support to the Syrians.
Sabbagh indicated that Syria was frank in expressing its core concerns and was open to all sincere initiatives and efforts aimed at meeting the humanitarian needs of all Syrians without politicization, discrimination or exclusion, and presented in detail the flaws that the past years and months had revealed in the implementation of the Council's resolutions related to humanitarian affairs. “Exposing” the extent of manipulation and misinformation practiced by some countries, as well as the disastrous effects of the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States and the European Union, and the need to put an end to these hostile practices and provide real guarantees to ensure the effective and transparent implementation of the effects of this decision.
The permanent representative of Syria pointed to the need to implement early recovery projects and include vital sectors in them, such as electricity, on which all humanitarian activities related to the provision of basic services such as health, education, water and others are based. It also demanded that it include in the draft resolution a clear reference to support for the removal of mines and explosive devices planted by terrorists because of its importance Serious in preserving the lives of Syrians and facilitating the safe return of the displaced to their homes and lands.
Sabbagh explained that among the important matters that Syria was keen to demand is the need for a monitoring, review and follow-up mechanism to ensure that tangible results are achieved in the field of early recovery and that cross-border aid does not fall into the hands of terrorist organizations, including through empowering the two Red Crescent organizations. The Syrian Arab League and the International Committee of the Red Cross from supervising the process of distributing humanitarian aid in all regions, pointing out that to ensure measuring the efficiency of the implementation of all components of the resolution, Syria called on Syria not to exceed the period of its mandate for six months in order to allow the process of review and follow-up implementation.
Sabbagh stressed that Syria holds the United States, Britain and France fully responsible for thwarting the implementation of essential pillars of Resolution 2585 and for faltering behind the draft resolution presented by Ireland and Norway and pushing for a vote on it, even though it does not achieve a real response to humanitarian needs and does not bear any fundamental amendments or improvements that meet the aspects of The concern that Syria has repeatedly expressed, which made it impossible to accept this discriminatory and unbalanced formula.
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